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In October, all eyes were on a small town in Hawaii as lava slowly inched its way from Kilauea volcano to the nearby Pahoa town center. Supermarkets, drugstores and schools all closed in preparation, as the lava claimed a home and nearly crossed ...

Over the last several decades, DNA – the genetic material of life as we know it – has completed a remarkable scientific cycle. In 1953, it was a mysterious blur on an X-ray diffractogram. By the 1970s, it was possible to determine the sequence of short nucleotide chains. And now, a scientist can produce her […] The post The Brave New World of DNA Synthesis appeared first on WIRED.

I’m sorry to say that this will be my last post at Zoologic. It’s been a pleasure bringing you the weirdest and most intriguing animal news, and I’ll miss writing here. I want to thank Wired for providing me with this forum that allowed me to explore the latest in animal behavior and cognition. It’s […] The post Thank You From Zoologic appeared first on WIRED.

Late Night Randomness is a collection of photos we have found in searching the web that don’t necessarily fit in with our other posts or are perhaps a little too edgy to present earlier in the day. They’re still cool and beautiful, so we wanted to share them with you.

Late Night Randomness is a collection of photos we have found in searching the web that don’t necessarily fit in with our other posts or are perhaps a little too edgy to present earlier in the day. They’re still cool and beautiful, so we wanted to share them with you.

It sounds almost like a late '90s sci-fi flick: NASA sends a spacecraft to an asteroid, plucks a boulder off its surface with a robotic claw, and brings it back in orbit around the moon. The post NASA’s Plan to Give the Moon a Moon appeared first on WIRED.

I should know better by now: Whenever I post a bunch of pictures from some astronomical event and say they were the best I saw, someone comes along and proves me wrong. This photo was taken by frequent BA Blog contributor Geoff Sims, who was flying on a plane chartered to observe the...